This resource contains a Food themed playlist of songs and instructions for how to run a food themes music quiz with your class. Ideally would be used as a starter or warm up.
View full descriptionStrand: Listening & Responding
Strand unit: Listening and responding to music
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Ideally this would be used at the start of a music class as a warm-up. Can be linked with an overall theme of food.
Growing Plants for Food - Lessons 1-4
View full descriptionStrand: Myself
Strand unit: Taking care of my body
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Lesson on growing plants for food ad their importance in a healthy diet
All you need to know about food chains. Great introduction with lots of examples.
View full descriptionStrand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
In this resource there are 4 basic levels (two pages for each level):
• Level 1 = quarter notes, half notes, whole notes
• Level 2 = adds eighth notes
• Level 3 = emphasizes triplets and swing feel
• Level 4 = emphasizes sixteenth notes
Each use different food associated words to create the rhythmic patterns
Strand: Performing
Strand unit: Literacy
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: 1.Say the words aloud in rhythm 2–3 times, and ask the students to copy you.
Have the students repeat a few times.
2. Say the words while clapping the rhythm (2–3 times), and ask the students to
copy. (Tapping can be used in place of clapping.)
3. Each rhythm is one complete measure; you may combine rhythms with the same
time signature by placing individual cards next to each other.
4. After a group (or level) of rhythm patterns is learned, place them all in front of
the students. Clap one of the rhythms a few times, and ask the students to choose
the pattern you clapped. (This can be repeated as part of a game.)
5. The students may then progress to playing each rhythm pattern on percussion instruments
while counting aloud.
This activity engages children to learn about our digestive system by finding out how poo is made by the body
View full descriptionStrand: Living Things
Strand unit: Human Life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Discover local ingredients, traditional dishes & authentic restaurants with Taste Atlas. Use the map to zoom in on a country or location and find out about the food and drinks that were created there. Alternatively, you can use the search box to find something more specific.
View full descriptionStrand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and Other Lands
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: People and Other Lands
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
How much do you know about global hunger?
Take a look and explore 10 popular myths about world hunger, food production and nutrition by sorting the facts from the fiction.
Strand: 3. Exploring People, Place and Change
Strand unit: 7. Compare Life Chances for a Young Person
Strand: 3. Living Our Values
Strand unit: 6. Debate a Moral Issue
Strand: 2. Global Citizenship
Strand unit: 2.1 Sustainability
Strand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
This is a 10 question true or false quiz on the topic of world hunger. Feedback is provided in the answers with some surprising facts and information about hunger in the world today. Information is provided by developmenteducation.ie
View full descriptionStrand: Myself & the Wider World
Strand unit: Developing citizenship
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Strand: Human Environments
Strand unit: Trade & Development
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
This resource provides a link to a series of games supported by the California Dairy Industry, but which focus on Healthy Eating in general.
View full descriptionStrand: Myself
Strand unit: Taking care of my body
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
Suggestions for use: Use these games to reinforce teaching about Healthy Eating and food groups. They could provide a stimulating plenary or introduction to a lesson.
They could also provide for informal assessment of the children's learning and understanding of the topic.
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